Despite cutting turkey production because of an avian flu outbreak, a Philadelphia judge has ordered Kraft Heinz Co. to provide a family-owned meat processor with thousands of pounds of turkey twice a week for the rest of the year.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Patricia A. McInerney granted a restraining order and preliminary injunction ordering Kraft to provide Mrs. Ressler's Food Products with 36,000 pounds of fresh turkey breast meat twice a week for the duration of the parties' 2015 contract. The one-page order in Mrs. Ressler's Food Products v. H&H Trading, which was issued last week, was conditioned on the plaintiff company posting a $30,000 bond.

Although Kraft had noted that an avian flu outbreak required it to reduce its sales of turkey breast to the company by 10 percent and argued there was no immediate threat to the company, Mrs. Ressler's argued that Kraft was using the outbreak as an excuse to break its contract.